From university academician to chief academician

Supercomputing Center, Base 111, Laboratory No. 1!

This is where Ye Fei leads his team to work.

At this time, Ye Feizheng was explaining Turing equivalence to the team.

How to use the mathematical knowledge in Turing equivalence to derive mathematical algorithms.

Ye Feidao: "Computing the constructivity of partial recursive functions in Hopfield nets proves that partial recursive functions are equivalent to Turing machines."

"So, Hopfield net is equivalent to Turing machine."

"Your next research will focus on Hopfield nets, partially recursive functions and Turing machines."

“After studying these, we can then explore other parts of the mathematical algorithm.”

The team includes computer science PhDs from famous universities, full professors, associate professors, teaching assistants and lecturers.

At this time, they were like students, holding notebooks to record what Ye Fei said.

I can’t accept it!

In academia, there is no priority in learning, only those who achieve first!

Ability is the only criterion for determining status.

Ye Fei is better than them in mathematical algorithms, so they must listen to Ye Fei's words.

At twelve o'clock at noon, everyone left the laboratory and went to the cafeteria to eat.

While walking on the road, many people greeted Ye Fei.

It has been two months since Ye Feilai came to the Supercomputing Center, and his abilities have been recognized by everyone.

"Dean Guan!" Ye Fei sat opposite Dean Guan with a dinner plate.

As mentioned earlier, Academician Guan’s professional title at the Supercomputing Center is Dean, so he is also called Dean Guan.

"Ye Fei, you came just in time!" Dean Guan said with a smile: "Tomorrow, a group of multinational inspection groups will come to our supercomputing center for inspection. When they arrive at the 111 base, you have to receive them."

"Dean!" Ye Fei said with a bitter smile: "I have never done such a thing, why don't you find someone else?"

"I don't think I will show up. Let Professor Sun receive you!" Ye Fei looked at Professor Sun sitting next to Dean Guan and said with a smile: "He should be experienced."

Professor Sun is a professor at the School of Computer Science at Central South University, where he mainly studies data engineering.

At the same time, he is also one of the researchers at Base 111.

In the supercomputing center, a large number of professors come from Zhonghu University, Central South University, National University of Science and Technology and Zhonghu Normal University.

They are both researchers at the Supercomputing Center and university professors.

Here is an explanation of the difference between a researcher and a professor.

Researchers are scientific researchers who focus on scientific research, and professors are university teachers who focus on teaching.

Researchers only need to do scientific research, not teaching.

Professors need both teaching and scientific research. They just focus on teaching and research.

University teachers are divided into teaching assistants, lecturers, associate professors and full professors.

Scientific researchers are divided into research interns, assistant researchers, associate researchers and researchers.

Full professors and researchers have equal grades, assistant researchers and associate professors have equal grades, and so on.

Professor Sun is a professor, both teaching and scientific research.

Professor Sun is a middle-aged man in his fifties, bald, round and shiny, wearing a pair of glasses and always with a smile on his face.

Many people feel funny and want to laugh when they see him.

It is said that because of this image, his students like to listen to him very much, and listening to his class is like watching a sketch.

Professor Sun waved his hands repeatedly and said with a smile: "I can't do that!"

As he spoke, he touched the top of his head and said, "I've been very busy recently, and my hair has gone bald because of my busy schedule. I don't have time to entertain these inspection groups."

Several people around me laughed. Are you bald? You have no hair.

"I don't have time either!" Ye Fei said helplessly, "I'm also very busy."

"You are young and have good physical strength. It's okay to be busy." Professor Sun said: "In terms of physical strength, I can't compare with you."

"Besides, I, a bad old man, go to meet these foreigners, which will harm the country's image."

"You look very handsome. If you go, it will definitely not damage the country's image."

"Ye Fei!" Dean Guan said: "You are now the person in charge of the 111 base, and receiving the inspection team is also part of your job."

"Moreover, the inspection team will definitely ask about the research of the 111 base. You know the most details about this matter, and I still need your answer."

Ye Fei heard what Dean Guan said, and it seemed that he couldn't refuse. He said helplessly: "Okay, but it can't take me too long."

"At most half a day!" Dean Guan said.

Ye Fei asked: "Is there anything I need to pay attention to?"

"You don't need to pay attention to anything." Dean Guan said: "Be reasonable, well-founded and restrained, neither humble nor arrogant nor angry."

"Don't leak a word of technical aspects."

Academician Guan said seriously: "This is the key point."

Ye Fei nodded and said, "Which countries are they from? Why are they here for inspection?"

"Japan, Korea, India, Germany, England and France, as well as some experts from universities in our country."

"The reason why I came here for the inspection is to get a feel for our country's supercomputing, and also for the upcoming Gordon Bell Prize."

The Gordon Bell Prize is the highest award in the field of high-performance computing applications, equivalent to the Nobel Prize in supercomputing.

Beili, Xia, and Japan are the three countries with the most developed supercomputing, so they have won the most Gordon Bell Awards.

Among them, Beiliguo won the most awards, followed by Xiaguo.

Dean Guan said: "Every year, most of the Gordon Bell Prizes are awarded between Beili, Xia and Japan."

"So, the supercomputing of these three countries is what other countries are paying attention to."

“Not many countries actually care whether they receive the award or not, but supercomputing reflects a country’s scientific and technological strength and comprehensive strength.”

"And many countries like to hide their incompetence when it comes to supercomputing, especially our Xia country."

"Xia Guo has the largest number of supercomputers in the world. Only one supercomputer is awarded at a time. No one knows how many supercomputers Xia Guo has and which one is the strongest."

"So do other countries!"

Ye Fei nodded and thought to himself: "What an old Yinbi."

Dean Guan said: "The award-winning supercomputer cannot reflect the supercomputing power of a country, so there are inspection groups to find out the supercomputing power of various countries."

"Of course, countries will definitely not allow them to inspect at will. The strongest strength is hidden. This time, the superiors will let us here for their inspection."

Ye Fei smiled and said: "This is because the higher-ups think we are not strong enough!"

"Yes!" Dean Guan nodded: "Our supercomputer is only 109 petaflops. Not to mention compared to my country's fastest Sunway TaihuLight, it is far behind Tianhe-1."

"Yeah!" Ye Fei nodded.

Sunway TaihuLight's floating point operations reached 1.254 billion times, and Tianhe-1's floating point operations reached 257 billion times.

Of course, this was data from many years ago, and no one knows the exact number now.

However, outside estimates indicate that Sunway TaihuLight’s floating-point operations should reach about 13 billion times, and that of Tianhe-1 should be about 5 billion times.

Professor Sun said: "To say that Sunway TaihuLight is the fastest in the country, I think it won't be the fastest soon."

"No?" Ye Fei asked: "Does our country have a faster supercomputer than Sunway TaihuLight?"

"Yes!" Professor Sun nodded: "Our country is about to build the ninth supercomputing center in Jiangcheng, Shennong Tianshu."

"The number of floating point operations is expected to reach 5.643 billion times!"

"5.643 trillion times!" Ye Fei said in surprise: "So much faster than the Sunway Taihu Light?"

The number of floating point operations of Sunway TaihuLight is 1.254 billion times, and the number of Shennong Tianshu is 4.5 times.

"Yes!" Professor Sun said.

Ye Fei marveled that the development of supercomputing is changing rapidly every day.

In 2010, Tianhe-1 was the fastest in the world.

In 2015, the Sunway TaihuLight appeared, with a speed of 1.254 billion, which was 4.8 times that of Tianhe-1.

The improvement is 4.8 in five years, which is terrifying!

Supercomputing embodies a country's technology. It can also be seen from this that Xia's technology has improved very quickly in five years.

And now there is Shen Nong Tian Shu, whose speed reaches 5.643 billion times, which is 4.5 times that of Sunway Taihu Light.

An increase of 4.5 times in eight years is still terrifying!

Dean Guan said: "Don't be too surprised. There is still a big gap between our country's supercomputer and Beili's. Beili's cutting-edge supercomputer has reached 11 billion times, and it is the only E-class supercomputer in the world."

"So fast?" Ye Fei widened his glasses in surprise.

The Shennong Heavenly Book supercomputer is already very fast, but the cutting-edge supercomputer is even faster, 1.9 times faster than the Shennong Heavenly Book, and 5.357 billion times higher than the Shennong Heavenly Book.

Ye Fei clicked his tongue, this was too scary.

"Of course, you should not inflate the enemy's ambition and destroy your own prestige." Professor Sun said: "One day, our country, Xia, will be number one in the world in supercomputing for many years in a row, and will be far ahead of the number two in the world."

This is also the voice of countless supercomputing center people in Xia State, and it is also the voice of scientists in Xia State.